'The Palestinians won key concessions, including more family visits and limits to a controversial Israeli policy that can imprison people for years without charge.

The agreement also saw roughly 20 prisoners released from solitary confinement back into the general prison population. These include Hamas member Abdullah al-Barghouthi, serving 67 life sentences for helping to plan a series of suicide bombings that killed scores of civilians.'

Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians and IDF forces in the West Bank and security forces responded with crowd dispersal means at events marking the Palestinian “Nakba Day” in a number of locations. Events marking Nakba Day (the Day of Catastrophe marking the anniversary of the establishment of Israel and the creation of the Palestinian diaspora) included a series of demonstrations and rallies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as a number of neighboring Arab countries.Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah for a major rally at the Martyr Yasser Arafat Square. The protesters raised black banners and Palestinian flags to mark the event. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was in attendance.'

'Throughout the city, cars were decked out with black flags carrying a picture of a key and the word "return" in English and Arabic to remember homes they left or were forced from which are now inside Israel.

Hundreds also gathered at the nearby Ofer military prison, and at the Qalandiya crossing between Ramallah and Jerusalem, where youths hurled stones at Israeli troops, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them, AFP correspondents said.

Further north, several thousand people gathered in Nablus city centre waving flags and calling for the right of return.'

Israeli security forces are on alert and Nakba Day commemorations in the past have often resulted in clashes with troops and police.

"We are co-ordinating with the military and border police, we hope things will be quiet," Rosenfeld said on Monday. "We have mobilised a number of units in various areas," he said, without elaborating.'